Here are official staff photos showing the men who taught at DHS from 1958-1961.There were quite a few memorable characters among them!

There are also three bonus photos at the end.  The first is the staff in 1964, showing the same old stalwarts looking much the same as when we first set eyes on them in 1958. The second is the staff of 1952, showing several of our teachers looking more youthful, six years before our arrival.  The third is the staff in 1951, with several of our teachers present there too, looking even younger!

 

                                  1961

 

                                                             1960

 

                                                             1959

 

                                                            1958

 

                        First Bonus Photo -- the Staff in 1964                                  

                                                                

Note the familiar stalwarts in the second row -- Pope, Draper, Chater, Gray, van Heerden, Howard, headmaster McIver, Thompson, Theobald, Nourse, Lucas, and Perkins.

There are three future headmasters of DHS in this picture --   Ken Tomlinson (back row second from right), Des Thompson (then vice-principal, next to McIver on the right), and Trevor Bennison (front row, third from left).

 

                              Second Bonus Photo -- the Staff in1952

                         

Many of our teachers were at the school in 1952.  In the back row are Chater, Pienaar, McKay, Lucas, Noble, Oellerman, and Akitt.  In the middle row are Thompson, Theobald, Nourse, and McMichael.  In the front row are Gray, Payn, van Heerden, St Pol, and Crewe.  The vice-principal seated left of headmaster Armstrong is A. Goldwater, a much-beloved figure who retired in 1955.

 

               Third Bonus Photo -- the Staff in 1951

 

The 1951 headmaster is Col A.C.Martin.  He retired at the end of that year and was suceeded by George Armstrong.  The teachers are all wearing their full academic gowns and hoods for the photo (except for Bill Payn, who didn't have a degree).  The practice was evidently discontinued the next year when George Armstrong became headmaster.

In the back row are Pienaar,  Lucas, Thompson,  Gray, McMichael, and MacKay.

In the middle are Chater, Noble, van Os,  Oellerman, and Theobald.

In the front row are van Heerden,  Payn, St Pol, Charlie Crewe.

Please let us know if you can spot any of our other teachers in the bonus photos!